I’ve worked on games with bugs – every game released has bugs. I remember developing at Ubisoft and we had a bug on Bear where the game would only work on Purple Gameboy Colours. No lie – and when you’ve had 10 hours sleep in 3 days at it’s 4am and you get a bug like that, you want pack it all in.

Gabriel the code monkey figured it out (I have no idea what it was), and the game shipped.

Console games usually have less bugs than PC games. Partly this is down to the standard hardware in the consoles, and party because each hardware vendor has it’s own internal test department who won’t let you release buggy games (although they differ from region to region, Nintendo USA passed Super Bubble Pop on the Gamcube and Nintendo Europe didn’t).

With all that in mind, I was surprised to see freezing issues with Major League Baseball 2k6. There are possible methods to fix it, and a patch is to be released, but I’m hoping this was a one off. Patches for console games? Please, let’s not go down this road.

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